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Connect your AI assistant to Apple Mail

Yes, your AI assistant can read your Apple Mail. Pomeroy connects your AI assistant to Apple Mail on your Mac, so it can list your mailboxes, read messages, and search your mail by sender, subject, or body text. Pomeroy cannot send, reply, delete, or move mail; it only reads.

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Free for 50 actions a week. No account, no card.

What can you ask your assistant to do in Apple Mail?

  • “Find the flight confirmation from March and tell me the times.”
  • “Show me my most recent job application emails.”
  • “What unread mail do I have?”
  • “Search my mail for the plumber’s invoice and tell me the total.”
  • “Read me the latest email from the school and pull out the dates.”
  • “Which mailbox has the most unread messages?”

What your assistant can do in Apple Mail

  • List your mailboxes, with message and unread counts.
  • List and read messages in any mailbox.
  • Search subjects and senders, or message bodies through an index built on your Mac.
  • List unread mail, newest first.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Mail

  • Send a message, a reply, or a forward.
  • Delete, move, or archive mail.
  • Mark anything read or unread.

Your mailbox stays exactly as you left it.

How to connect your AI assistant to Apple Mail

The same four steps whichever assistant you use. Each assistant also has its own page for Apple Mail, below, with what Set up does there and how to check it worked.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy adds an icon to your menu bar and opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. They all start switched off.

  2. 2

    Switch on Mail.

    macOS asks whether Pomeroy may control Mail, which is how one Mac app reads another's mail. The prompt names Pomeroy, and nothing is requested until you flip the toggle.

  3. 3

    Choose your AI assistant.

    Pomeroy lists the AI assistants it finds on this Mac. Press Set up beside yours: most take one click, and the rest take a configuration Pomeroy copies for you.

  4. 4

    Ask your assistant.

    Try “Find the flight confirmation from March and tell me the times.” and a real answer comes back.

Connect a specific assistant to Apple Mail

Not here: claude.ai, ChatGPT and Grok on the web. Why.

Can my AI assistant read my Apple Mail?

Yes. Once you switch Mail on in Pomeroy, your assistant can list your mailboxes, read messages, and search your mail. Searches cover subjects and senders, and message bodies through an index built and kept on your Mac.

Can my AI assistant send email for me?

No. Pomeroy has no way to send, reply, or forward, so your assistant cannot be talked into it. If you want a reply written, your assistant can draft the words and you send them yourself.

Is it safe to connect an AI assistant to Apple Mail?

Pomeroy reads your mail on your Mac and sends nothing to a Pomeroy server. What your assistant reads becomes part of your conversation, the same as text you paste in. Mail starts switched off, and you can switch it off again at any time. Pomeroy is an independent app, not made by Anthropic.

How does Pomeroy compare with other tools?

Other apps also connect an AI assistant to Apple Mail, and some are free. Pomeroy is the read-mostly one, and the comparison pages set out price, coverage and maintenance for each, with the date the facts were checked: Pomeroy vs iMCP, Pomeroy vs Macuse, Pomeroy vs LMCP, apple-mcp is archived. What should you use instead?.

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Try your assistant with Apple Mail.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.

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